Before accepting the recomendations of a paid consultant on the concept or desire to raise the water/sewer rates over the next few years, it is of note that these rates represent a sum that is higher than the water/sewer rates in the Denver metro area. I might add that the Denver area has a severe water shortage and an enormous cost in providing new lines to a rapidly growing area. If there is a cost to fee deficit in our operations then of course there is a need for higher fees. However, why there is a cost to fee deficit that should not exist is a more important matter to study. In an area that is awash in water and sewage costs that should be the same as anywhere else, I am not quit sure what the basis is for the particular fee increases that have been reccomended. It is of course easier to place the responsibility on a consulting company to come up with fee increases rather then putting your name on such increases but that seems to be the mode of operation in local government for some years now. Why is it that we can not be smart enough and brave enough to do our own work we were elected to do instead of spending public money to have someone else do this work for us? I am a good listener.

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